Cloud Storage & Compute

What is SDSC Cloud Storage and Compute?

The SDSC Research Data Services (RDS) team administers one of the first large-scale academic deployments of cloud storage in the world. UC San Diego campus users, members of the UC community, and UC affiliates are eligible to join the hundreds of users who already benefit from the 3 petabytes of raw space, which is organized into object-based cloud storage by OpenStack’s Swift platform.

SDSC Cloud Storage is the perfect storage choice for researchers with fixed budgets because unlike other cloud providers, SDSC features a simplified recharge plan that eliminates secondary fees such as bandwidth costs, charges assessed per request, and regional migration fees.

Advantages of SDSC Cloud include:

Collaboration - effortlessly share cloud data with colleagues or the public

Redundancy - with three copies of each file distributed across multiple internal racks, rest assured that your data is reasonably safe from the perils of normal hardware exhaustion

Technical Support - communicate directly with SDSC Cloud Storage engineers, who enjoy using their extensive experience to assist you

In addition to storage, SDSC Cloud now includes compute options. Users can spin up instances on demand. Email services@sdsc.edu for more information.

Note: SDSC offers a separate cloud storage system for data that needs to meet PHI/PII or HIPAA compliance. Explore SHERLOCK for secure solutions.

SDSC Cloud Compute Additional Cost Details

Cloud compute is billed by hours of use of each instance. The base rate is $0.08/SU, where an SU is the cost of running the most basic instance of one vCPU and 4 GB of memory at the rates of $0.05/vCPU/hour and $0.0075/GB of memory/hour. More powerful instances or instances with increased storage cost more to run.